When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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Masked, I advance.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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